In the following song “The Color Violet” by Tory Lanez, the singer sings about heartbreak and the struggle to find love that comes with the adopted persona of a ‘playboy’. The repetition of the ‘ will to not dance again’ enunciates the singer’s will to not love again, creating an evident metaphor. In verse one, the singer states evidence of consuming drugs, immediately painting a picture of addiction and escapism. Additionally, the singer is seen to share loose and shallow relations with women around him, referring to them as ‘Barbies’, idealised as the way women should look by society, and the said women’s inability to see past the reader’s ‘playboy persona’. What can be also noted is the carelessness regarding safety, when there is the mention of ‘she could care less if we crash’, showing that the women in his life for reasons do not value their own life to value another’s life, cutting off further paths to connect on a deeper level. This all but enhances the detachment and loss of true connection within the singer’s life, resulting in their will to not love again. …show more content…
For instance, in line 8, the singer says “I waited for my chance, but playboys, we don’t dance, dance, dance”, in this the singer refers to the rule of a playboy to not dance. By dance he means love, meaning playboys don’t love or romance, thus they possess no need for soul-to-soul connections. What’s more is that in line 4 when he is in association with a woman, she only gives attention to his watch, droptop and his persona (the playboy), meaning the women he tries to connect with only value his materialistic worth and does not his true self, making the persona of a playboy become a wall between his ability to